bandy-legged
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8.6
- adjective
- /ˈbændiˌlɛɡɪd/
- Archaic
- The bandy-legged briefer, Captain Cyrus Cirrus, did not tell C.R. what he wanted to hear.
- a bandy-legged man
Examples
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The bandy-legged athlete surprised everyone by winning the competition despite his appearance.
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Old Abe staggered through the mud, bandy-legged from a decade's habit of staying upright while drunk.
Fiction book (1990) -
The speaker was bandy-legged, stocky, with grizzled hair falling in ringlets around his pointed ears.
Fiction book (1995) -
A touch over four feet tall, barrel-chested and bandy-legged, he had the thick, clammy skin of a swamp dweller, and slightly bulbous, friendly black eyes.
Fiction book (1992) -
Apart from this deformity, she is bandy-legged, and throughout childhood, she is marked by startling "maigreurs" (1: 134).
Academic text (1992) -
Yama jumped up—a springy man, muscular, bandy-legged.
Fiction book (2000) -
Short, hunched, bandy-legged, mostly toothless but still a smiler, he grabs Phoebe hard from behind, pulls her back into his chest, pointing with his penlight up into the cavern.
Fiction book (2000) -
The bandy-legged child struggled to keep up with her friends during the race.
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After years of riding horses, he had become noticeably bandy-legged.
Synonyms
4
6.8
Having legs that curve outward at the knees so the knees are apart when the feet are together
2
6.6
Legs that curve outward at the knees and leave a space between them when the feet are together
2
8.1
Having legs that curve outward at the knees when standing
Antonyms
How Bowed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bandy-legged comes from an old word meaning 'bent' and is tied to the simple English word bend. So bandy-legged describes legs that bend or curve outward, like a bow, which explains its modern meaning.